Journal of Urban History (JUH), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, provides scholars and professionals with the latest research, analyses, and discussion on the history of cities and urban societies throughout the world. JUH presents original research by distinguished authors from the variety of fields concerned with urban history. Each insightful issue offers the latest scholarship on such topics as public housing, migration, urban growth, and more.
Table of Contents
Special Section IntroductionIntroduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Special Section Articles
Places Created and Peopled: “Black Women: Where They Be . . . Suffering?” Rhonda Y. Williams
The Banality of Segregation: Why Hirsch Still Helps Us Understand Our Racial Geography Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Money and the Ghetto, Money in the Ghetto Destin Jenkins
In the Shadow of the Second Ghetto Lilia Fernandez
The Southern Side of Chicago: Arnold R. Hirsch and the Renewal of Southern Urban History N. D. B. Connolly
White Rage, White Liberals, and the Making of the Second Ghetto Simon Balto
Articles
Making a Modern Barrio: Infrastructure and Progress in Mexico City, 1900–1903 Andrew Konove
Mirrored Imaginaries: Urban Chroniclers in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1910–1936 Daniel Richter
Backlash on the Border: Conservatism and the Rise of the New Economy in the San Diego–Tijuana Corridor Daniel Elkin
Spatial Forms of Ethnic Coexistence in Ottoman Cyprus: The Role of Urban Form in Patterns of Everyday Life Nadia Charalambous
“Minimum Dwelling” All’italiana: From the Case Popolari to the 1929 “Model Houses” of Garbatella Aristotle Kallis
Port Said and Ismailia as Desert Marvels: Delusion and Frustration on the Isthmus of Suez, 1859–1869 Lucia Carminati
Review Essays
Looking at Urban History through Art, and Vice Versa Rebecca Zurier
Rethinking the Taxonomies of Civil Rights Work Karissa Haugeberg
Harnessing the Market in Premodern Europe Maarten Prak
Control the Water, Control the City: New York City, Environmental Disasters, and Currents of Change Erica A. Morin
At the Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, and Highway Politics Roger Biles and Mark H. Rose
Nuanced Examinations of Eighteenth-Century Boston Joshua P. Canale
Why Desegregation Matters: Educational Inequality and the Pursuit of Democracy Walter C. Stern
Settler Colonialism, Race-Making Criminalization and State Violence Mike King